Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand, nine-year-old Maria Campa, granddaughter of one of the circus owners, was clawed and chewed to death by a young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner...
...Married. Ida Lupino, 34, British-born cinemactress; and Howard Duff, 33, actor (radio's "Sam Spade"); she for the third time, the day after her divorce from Collier Young, 42, partner in her independent film company; in Lake Tahoe...
...mustache. It was also a case of near war (TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Both came from prominent political families in Crete, but Constantine's family was Royalist, Tassoula's Liberal. Tassoula's father forbade the marriage, so Constantine grabbed Tassoula, carried her off to Mount Ida, where they were married in a lonely monastery, then hid in a cave protected by a private army of Constantine's family and friends...
...Eddie Cantor, who sang such showstoppers as Makin' Whoopee and Bye, Bye, Blackbird, bounced through an old-time burlesque routine, delivered a flood of show business anecdotes in an emotion-choked voice. As usual, Cantor narrowly escaped the final plunge into bathos, came closest to it while singing Ida to his wife as the TV camera sought her downcast face in the audience...
...studies of Mediterranean anemia, Dr. Nittis has never known a victim with so severe a case as Ida Donnelly's to survive for 24 years, let alone carry a child full term. Now she has enough blood credits to last her for years. And 7¼-lb. Raymond Edwin John Donnelly Jr. can thank his father for the fact that his blood seems free of the taint...